Why wait?

I'm sitting in the hotel lobby. It is breakfast time, and there is a free meal available here for me; and yet I wait.

For my breakfast pleasure, the hotel offers cereal, various sugar coated confections, toast-able bread products, and coffee. But while I am hungry, still I choose to ignore these offerings. Around me, my fellow guests are happily partaking. I am different, but they don't pay much attention to my separateness, as I am not drawing attention to myself.

Why am I not eating the proffered meal? Because I have a better deal ahead!

I have been invited to breakfast at the best restaurant in town to be payed for by my host. By eating the free breakfast at the hotel, I'm going to ruin my appetite and lessen my pleasure at the superior meal to come. I am bypassing the meal at hand based on the faith I have in my host coming to get me.

Likewise is the Christian walk. We turn down the proffered pleasures of this world because we have faith in our Host-to-come and the greater things he has set aside for us in the future. Even in this life we are offered quick and easy short cuts which lessen our ability to enjoy the better things ahead. The most obvious being premarital sex. The world says, partake now because you are missing a good thing. But God says, wait and receive a greater blessing and joy.

Where is your faith? Is it in the oft broken promises of this world, or in the tried and true Word of the Living God?

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